- Adaptations, Juvenile fiction, Quests (Expeditions), Fairy tales
On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.
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Grave, classical in form, plot-driven and effortless.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Neil Gaiman
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 72
- Publisher
- Salamandra, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780062398253
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“The queen woke early that morning.”
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.
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